Sharon Stone says a former Sony executive exposed himself during a meeting

Speaking with Kelly Ripa, Sharon Stone reveals a horrifying episode from early in her career

Sharon Stone says a former Sony executive exposed himself during a meeting
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An unnamed Sony executive took out his penis in a meeting, Sharon Stone alleges in a new interview from Kelly Ripa’s Sirius XM show (via The Daily Beast). The meeting took place in the late 1980s when Sony was run by Peter Gruber and Jon Peters; the latter has long been accused of abusive behavior toward women, including throwing water in Barbara Streisand’s face during the production of A Star Is Born and sexually harassing a former assistant in 2011, which ended up in court and cost him $3.3 million. At the time of the meeting, Stone had just begun to break into the industry.

Stone said she was “so excited to wear my special outfit and to meet the head of Sony. She wore a “Ralph Lauren jacket with the little ruffle on the shoulder, my denim skirt with a big ruffle at the bottom, and my cowboy boots.” Sitting on a couch that “was basically on the floor,” Stone recalls, him “pacing around the office” complimenting her. “‘Oh, it’s true what they say about you and you’re the most gorgeous. We haven’t seen anyone like you in decades. Everybody’s talking about you and looking at you. You’re the most articulate. You’re so smart and beautiful and that hair.’ I mean, I had hair down, you know, to my waist.”

“‘Oh, you’re just blah, blah, blah,’ and then he went, came walking right up in front of me and he said, ‘But first … ’ and he took his penis right out in my face,” Stone said. “And of course, I was very young and what I do when I’m nervous, because I’m basically a very bubbly person, I started laughing.”

Stone said that she “started laughing and crying at the same time” and “couldn’t stop.” He didn’t know what to do, the actor said, “So, of course, he put it away and he went through this door behind his desk, which I thought was that he left, so I didn’t know what to do. So, I was just sitting there hysterical, and eventually, his secretary came and led me out, right? This was not the last of many weird experiences like this in my career.”

 
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